Now i was able to wget -c http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=251542 an Win8 .iso that failed for the last 800-900MB first . Clicking on the iso works, it mounts and rox can navigate the udf file system inside it :

So would be cool to know how one boot it?
I trust it can only be used for a short time then it locks itself?
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not an ideal solution though

Yes but my netbook has no such device.
can one dd it to a usb 4gb? Can one boot it
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not an ideal solution though

I trust people at "bootland" and other such groups of enthusiasts
are motivated to boot Win8 from USB they want to boot everything.

For years they have booted Ms versions of windows. PE and such.
So should we not look there? I am too caught up with tidyuphome
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not an ideal solution though

Karl I would be very interested in your impressions of Losedows 8 [sorry so childish]

I tried Windows 7 on my sisters Netbook. Thought it was excellent - but for how long? My sister had a a security policy so intense, it makes the NSA look like the boy scouts. Windows lasted about 6 months before it was breached, broken and trashed to be the crippleware no one can bear using but so much of the world does . . .

I do not hear good things about Windows 8 and will not install even a beta this time to have a look.
Never seen or been inclined to use mobile Windows.
I can not really blame Microsoft. Company gets big and becomes suitable only for pretending to provide a user based product.

GKSu is a library that provides a Gtk+ frontend to su and sudo. It supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need to ask a user's password to run another program as another user.

2 possibilities, Geoffrey :

1) hack the sudo part to open urxvt -hold -e sudo and provide a patch
2) compile this annoying dependency

I do not hear good things about Windows 8 and will not install even a beta this time to have a look.
Never seen or been inclined to use mobile Windows.

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It's free until about the end of the year, and fun to play with.

Beside fun and free until the end of the year, You can full-install win8 on usb and portable also (it calls win_to_go) which you wont find portable full-install OS in linux so far. It is installable on any ntfs partition of HDD or USB (not must be on first partition) or another alternative you can create a light weight vhd-image (boot in bare-metal), let say 2 Gb image as you wish and boot it anywhere you want.

The bad things about win8:
-drivers
-some current programs will not work
-metro-look is not desktop user friendly

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